About me

Thesis

Title: Singledom and female subjectivity: fantasy, popular culture and lived experience (2021)

Supervisors: Professor Shani Orgad and Dr Leticia Sabsay

Profile

Kate completed her PhD in the Media and Communications Department in April 2021. She is now an award-winning Guest Teacher (on MC416 and the LSE International Journalism and Society Summer School) and Dissertation Supervisor/Academic Mentor for MSc students at LSE’s Media and Communications Department, and Dissertation Supervisor for MA students at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. Kate is currently adapting her thesis into a monograph. Kate previously has 15 years' experience as an editor in journalism and has worked on a voluntary basis for women's rights NGOs in Central America and Indonesia.

Expertise Details

gender; subjectivity; postfeminism; popular culture; self narrative

Articles

Gilchrist, Kate (2021) "Silencing the single woman: Negotiating the 'failed' feminine subject in contemporary UK society". Sexualities. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607211041100
Gilchrist, Kate. (2020)“Dysfunction, deviancy and sexual autonomy: the single female detective in primetime UK TV”. Television and New Media. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476420969879.

Conference talks

Gilchrist, K. (2019). “The case of the single detective: deviancy, vulnerability and hypersexuality”. Presented at: “Filmic Fantasies” session at the Cultural Studies Conference 2019 at Tulane University, New Orleans, the United States of America on 1 June 2019.
Gilchrist, K. (2019). “Singledom, popular culture and feminine subjectivity: the case of the single female detective”. Presented at: the Feminist Scholarship Division at the ICA 2019 Annual Conference in Washington DC, the United States of America on 27 May 2019.
Gilchrist, K. (2018). “Singledom and feminine subjectivity in US-UK popular culture: postfeminism, the unruly woman and ‘performative shamelessness”. Presented at: the Popular Culture Working Group. IAMCR Annual Conference, Oregon, the United States of America on 20-24 June 2018.
Gilchrist, K. (2017). “‘Singledom and feminine subjectivities: an intersectional analysis of intimate life”. Presented at: the University of Westminster Joint PhD Spring symposium, University of Westminster, London, UK. 17 March 2017.

Blog posts

Gilchrist, K (2019). Parents influence US teens’ attitudes to, and media practices around, gender equality, LSE Parenting for a Digital Future (27 Feb 2019). Blog Entry.
Gilchrist, K and Polizzi, G. (2019). Changing media habits mean having a conversation with children is more important than ever, LSE Parenting for a Digital Future (5 Feb 2019). Blog Entry.
Gilchrist, K. (2018). Confidence gap? The impact of gender, class and age on adults' digital literacy. LSE Parenting for a Digital Future (26 Sep 2018). Blog Entry.
Gilchrist, K. (2018). More access, less harm: children online in Europe and Latin America LSE Parenting for a Digital Future (25 Apr 2018). Blog Entry.
Gilchrist, K. (2016). The ‘private’ life of US politics part two: affect, intimacy and public bathrooms. LSE Engenderings (17 Oct 2016). Blog Entry.
Gilchrist, K. (2016). The ‘private’ life of US politics part one: affect, intimacy and Trump. LSE Engenderings (10 Oct 2016). Blog Entry.
Gilchrist, K. (2015). Intersections of gender, sexuality, race and age in the privileging of coupledom. Engenderings (13 Apr 2015). Blog Entry.

Book abstract:

Gilchrist, K. (2018). “Singledom and female subjectivity: fantasy, representation and lived experience”. In Peja, L., Carpentier, N., Colombo, F., Murru, M. F., Tosoni, S., Kilborn, R., Kramp, L., Kunelius, R., McNicholas, A., Nieminen, H., Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P. (Eds.) Current Perspectives on Communication and Media Research. (Pp. 326) Bremen: Edition lumière, 2018.

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Dr Kate Gilchrist

PhD Alumni

Department of Media and Communications